Solved CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?
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Hi All,
I required to run a file server to have IT stuff, ISO files repository for XenServer and few other requirements.
So, I was thinking of FreeNAS vs CentOS Samba server, I believe IT pros around here will suggest CentOS option, so I have shortlisted to CentOS.
This CentOS server is going to be run on XS 7.
Now, I am for GUI package to setup on CentOS 7 to manage easily, do you know one which is easier and stable ? I am not willing to play with Terminal as of now.
I know Webmin, not used much, I know it have Samba things to manage, but I was thinking of only File Server manager.
Thanks for suggestions
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I'm not aware of one, it's not considered good practice to have a GUI on a server, so the very existence of such a tool suggests that it is not a good one (like FreeNAS.) It's difficult to have a truly good product in a bad idea category.
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
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That said, the obvious choice is the included one. None of us recommend it and I've never met someone who would use it but, CentOS has a GUI for Samba included as does every Linux server distro of which I know. On CentOS the installation is...
yum -y install system-config-samba -
You can also use tools like Salt and Ansible. Of course, these are not GUIs either. But nor are they terminals.
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@aaronstuder said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Webmin
http://webmin.com/I don't think you could pay me to use Webmin. I'm even leery of using Cockpit and it's built by Red Hat.
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@stacksofplates well maybe @openit feels differently... what are your concerns? Used internally only it should be fine.
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@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
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@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
You always state proximates for other people when I'm trying to find goals.
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@openit said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Hi All,
I required to run a file server to have IT stuff, ISO files repository for XenServer and few other requirements.
So, I was thinking of FreeNAS vs CentOS Samba server, I believe IT pros around here will suggest CentOS option, so I have shortlisted to CentOS.
This CentOS server is going to be run on XS 7.
Now, I am for GUI package to setup on CentOS 7 to manage easily, do you know one which is easier and stable ? I am not willing to play with Terminal as of now.
I know Webmin, not used much, I know it have Samba things to manage, but I was thinking of only File Server manager.
Thanks for suggestions
Don't get me wrong, but the thing really is… if can't understand an smb.conf file, maybe is better if you don't use SAMBA at all, because you won't be able to deal with any problem with that like reading the logs etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
You always state proximates for other people when I'm trying to find goals.
LOL - I guess you're right.
So he stated his goal in the first post didn't he?
@openit said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
I required to run a file server to have IT stuff, ISO files repository for XenServer and few other requirements.
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@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
You always state proximates for other people when I'm trying to find goals.
You always use words people have to look up.
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@aaronstuder said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Webmin
http://webmin.com/I recommend Webmin as well. It makes administration of Linux a lot simpler and faster for typical administrative tasks. Especially if you aren't efficient with bash, and don't have time to spend hours on google before every task you want to perform, that you don't remember the commands for.
It's still faster and more efficient to Putty in (using SSH) and do things that way. But I understand that may not be for everyone, especially those who are specifically looking for GUI options.
I don't care what others say about it, I just know that it works, and works well, makes things tons easier, and it has never messed anything up. Even when I install it on ancient versions of Linux, it still performs well. The worst thing I have come across when installing Webmin, is I had to disable https (once)... but that case was a minor issue as it was internally protected anyways.
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@openit said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Hi All,
I required to run a file server to have IT stuff, ISO files repository for XenServer and few other requirements.
So, I was thinking of FreeNAS vs CentOS Samba server, I believe IT pros around here will suggest CentOS option, so I have shortlisted to CentOS.
This CentOS server is going to be run on XS 7.
Now, I am for GUI package to setup on CentOS 7 to manage easily, do you know one which is easier and stable ? I am not willing to play with Terminal as of now.
I know Webmin, not used much, I know it have Samba things to manage, but I was thinking of only File Server manager.
Thanks for suggestions
Learn the terminal. Webmin isn't always going to be an option and neither will a GUI. This reminds me of @scottalanmiller's
vimvs.nanodebate -
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
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@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
Oh boy.
Here comes the CLI fanboys to take you away...
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@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
GUI is the past, CMD is the future. GUI was an experiment in the 1990s and it went poorly. Microsoft has made it clear that even in the Windows world, GUI is legacy. And with DevOps, the drop off of GUI is rapid.
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@BRRABill said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Here comes the CLI fanboys to take you away...
We call them "system administrators".
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@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
GUI is the past, CMD is the future. GUI was an experiment in the 1990s and it went poorly. Microsoft has made it clear that even in the Windows world, GUI is legacy. And with DevOps, the drop off of GUI is rapid.
And yet in an SMB windows environment, I can accomplish literally everything I need to do and then some via GUI. Funny how that works, eh? Because the bottom line is not how you think I should do it, but how I actually accomplish daily, weekly, monthly tasks without CLI. GUIs work 110% for the stuff I've ever had to administer (insert SAM bashing everything I've ever done here to prove that all the world needs to use CLI all the time always), and the lack of possibility that a simple typo can ruin a day's work, I'll keep my GUI and continue having an easy, well paid job, thanks. Different strokes for different mafackas. In the immortal words of Peter Lorre, "you do it your way, and I'll do it mine".
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@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
GUI is the past, CMD is the future. GUI was an experiment in the 1990s and it went poorly. Microsoft has made it clear that even in the Windows world, GUI is legacy. And with DevOps, the drop off of GUI is rapid.
And yet in an SMB windows environment, I can accomplish literally everything I need to do and then some via GUI. Funny how that works, eh? Because the bottom line is not how you think I should do it, but how I actually accomplish daily, weekly, monthly tasks without CLI. GUIs work 110% for the stuff I've ever had to administer (insert SAM bashing everything I've ever done here to prove that all the world needs to use CLI all the time always), and the lack of possibility that a simple typo can ruin a day's work, I'll keep my GUI and continue having an easy, well paid job, thanks. Different strokes for different mafackas. In the immortal words of Peter Lorre, "you do it your way, and I'll do it mine".
To me its a matter of resource management but I'm not over here trying to change your mind either
